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Linksys E4200 450Mbps router review: Fast is in

As promised, the review of the Cisco Linksys E4200 Maximum Performance Dual-Band Wireless-N Router, the very first true dual-band Wireless-N router that offers a 450Mbps ceiling speed, is now up.

And the router is the fastest we've seen among Wireless-N routers. It's quite unfair to compare it with others, however, as it is the first router that offers the higher 450Mbps speed on the 5GHz band. The only other router that offers this speed is the Trendnet TEW-691GR, but it works only on the 2.4GHz band.

The Linksys 4200's 2.4GHz band, on the other hand, … Read more

Chief information security officers: Good news and bad news

According to ESG Research, 77 percent of large organizations ( 1,000 or more employees) employ a chief information security officer (CISO), up from 63 percent in 2005. ESG also found that more companies also hired chief compliance officers, chief privacy officers and chief risk officers in this two-year period as well. This data demonstrates that CEOs and board members are willing to throw money and talent at creating real operations around security, compliance, governance and IT risk.

Do these numbers mean that CISOs are becoming more strategic? I wouldn't go that far just yet--here's why. I recently had … Read more